Predictors of the extent of agreement for quality of life assessments between terminally ill cancer patients and their primary family caregivers in Taiwan

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 391-404

  Tang, Siew Tzuh ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Agreement in quality of life assessments; End of life research; Proxy assessments; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DYING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONRESPONSE BIAS; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TAIWAN; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TAIWAN; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 33645099822     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-005-2158-7     Document Type: Article

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